Kerri Phillipssmith (@kerriphillipssmith)

Thank you for breaking this down into bite size easy to digest pieces on information. I have joined this platform to help my daughter who has been on clozapine for the past 6 years and now wishes to taper off slowly. Her psychiatrist has no experience with this and so it feels really challenging to have to constantly do all of the reseach for her doctor. After some robust discussion and me as her mum (I am also a nurse of 35 years experience) advocating for her she has agreed to 12.5mg decrease each month. She has done this the past three months with no signs of any withdrawal. I now feel better prepared to help my daughter keep going and to help her report side effects that may mean we have made too big a jump. I can also see that it might be possible to try a larger decrease at the beginning and much smaller ones later on.